Director Song Hae-sung seems to have found himself in his second feature. The domestic version is roughly 20 minutes longer than the international version. As in their previous feature, director Kim Sang-jin and producer Kim Mi-hee (one of Korea's top trio of female producers) employ violence, hyperbole, and struggles for power to drive their film forward.

Nonetheless Failan is one of the year's must-sees, and a personal favorite. . His film shows much the same impatience, careening through different locales and wildly exaggerated actions. Ok-nam and Hye-na fall into each other's care after a trip they had separately planned South heads North.